Quotes About Authenticity

Everyone had pain. But not everyone had to stay hidden behind it.

You can always tell when a politician has spoken from the heart: he takes it back the next day.

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disarming tongue in cheek, frankness.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Digging deep into a situation before making a decision, will enable you to seek the proper truth, rather than what your told.

I try to act normal. Unfortunately I can do multiple different impressions of normal, and I can't figure out the appropriate one for the moment. I'm dangerously close to simply having to "be myself".

He tells me everything he does like any guy would after coming home from work. "Hi honey, bust day at the whore house today. Had to beat up three men and pretend to smoke a little crack".

Be the person that you want to be around

Posting the behind the scenes of your life creates top of the mind awareness.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?

Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

It was hard to speak, what with my heart trying to climb out of my mouth. For every gay man this question comes at some point, in just such a tone, if not in those actual words. I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or in simply not denying the truth. I know it took every ounce of strength I had to say, "I'm gay, if that's what you're asking.

Passionate kisses, the intoxicating exchange of breath and saliva - and something more intimate - something there was no real name for, like a spark catching between us and taking light. How had I forgotten this? How had I been satisfied with anything else? Guy...Mel...it was like choosing celluloid kisses over the real thing. The real thing was raw and powerful and dangerous...but it was the real thing. Had I really believed I could make do with safe substitutes?

The best fiction captures the truth of real life.

maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

The things that happen to me just make me more me.